Automobile-goggles.



I PHILIPPE CHARLES MAURICE MONTBARBON, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

AUTOMOBILE-GOGGLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4,1908.

' Application filed September 19, 1907. Serial No. 393,621.

' same.

, The present invention has for its object a device for protecting the eyes of the drivers of automobile vehicles, from rain, mud, dust. and flies or other foreign bodles.

This device, the advantages of which in crease with the increase of speed of the vehicle, is applicable to the spectacles or goggles used by the drivers of motor vehicles.

The device, broadly stated, consists in the combination of a front opaque screen and a rear transparent screen within each cylinder of the goggles, each of the screens being mounted u )on a wall of the cylinder containing it, the loweredge of each opaque screen being srtuatedin front of and at a certain horizontal distance from the upper edge of the transparent screen, a free space remaining between the two edges in question suflicient to afford a perfect field of vision to the eye of the driver of the vehicle. By the said combination of these two screens, foreign bodies are revented from reaching-the drivers eye, as the front screen imparts sufficient deviation to said bodies to cause them to fall on the rear screen, which is arranged to rare in practice, a foreign body might pass between the two screens, but in such case (owing to the action of the opaque front screen) it will have lost much of its velocity, so that, usually, it is no longer able to reach the eye; nevertheless, it is advisable, when the eye is very close to the front screen, as in the case of goggles, to add a supplementary screen to each cylinder or tube of the goggles, arranged closer tothe transparent rear screen but still in front of and above this latter.

In order to render the invention readily and clearly intelligible, the device forming the object of the invention is illustrated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a-view, from the front, of a pair of goggles embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, on the line AA of Fig. 1, through one cylinder of the gogg i I MTED STATES imsm OFF C The goggles are provided with two similar opaque cylinders a, which are, if desired, united in such amanner as to be convergent, as shown. cylinders, which come against the face, are provided, as in the goggles hitherto used, with a covering b of skin, silk or other fabric and with elastic cords or bands, 0, for fixing the goggles in place. 6

The front end of each of the cylinders or tubes. is partially closed by an opaque screen d extending over the upper half section of the cylinder and leaving the lower half section free. As regards the lower half section of 7 each cylinder, this (as shown in Fig. 2) is cut away in such a manner that the lower edge a of each cylinder is in retreat b a desired amount relatively to the lower e ge d of the screen (1. Each of the cylinders also prefer- 7:

edge j and the lower edge e of the screen 0 a 1 certain free space so that if the eye of the driver is located at 9 (Fig. 2) a field of-vision,

The rear portions of the said 0 addition to the up er screen 01' 3 or of erfect visibility, comprised in the angle e g is afforded under all weather conditions and is absolutely sufficient under all 91 circumstances arising in driving the vehicle. This field of vision may be extended in ood Weather, and especially when the vehic e is running at a moderate speed, and, in such case, it is com rised in the angle (1' g a, the 9:

condition of t e glasses f then permitting of the assage'of visual rays.

.T e action of the protecting device, in the case of rain, for example, is as follows: The

rain striking the screen (1 as indicated by the 1 arrow 1 or in a more or less oblique direction, is arrested and flows in drops to the lower edge d; thence carried by the air, the drops become detached and, upon falling, as shown by thearrow 2, strike the surface of the glass 1 f. flows over this surface and falls into the lower part of the cylinder from which it is able to escape to the exterior through an opening h specially provided for this purpose. In cases, which are, however, very rare, in which the drop follows the path indicated by the arrows 3, it is arrested by the screen e and slides to the .lower edge e thereof; then the g tioned sufficient to afford a field of vision, 2.5-

1 drop falls by its weight onto the front face of the glass f (the air having undergone loss of ressure and experiencing a counter pressure i 1n the sight opening, between e and f, loses its velocity) and the drop finally flows through i the openings h. In another rare case in which the dro might pass through the space e f, it

would ave so little velocity that it would fail to reach the e e. v In manner simi ar to the arresting of drops of rain, the dust, insects and other foreign bodies entering through the front opening of the cylinders a are arrested by the glasses What I claim is: l. Goggles for drivers of automobiles and other vehicles, and comprising cylinders, a front opa ue screen and. a transparent rear i screen wit 1in each cylinder and each suitably fitted to the walls of the c linder, the lower i edge of the front screen eing situated in front and at a certain horizontal distance from the upper ed e of the rear screen and with a free space etween the edges menbetween, the horizontal planes of the said edges, to the eye of the driver situated behind the rear screen.

Go gle-s for drivers of automobiles and other ve cries, and comprisin cylinders, an opaque screen mounted on t e upper part 0 each cylrnder at the front thereof, a transparent screen within each cylinder and mounted on the lower part thereof near its rear and with a free space between the edges of the'two specified screens sufficient to afford a field of vision to the eye of the driver situated behind the rear screen, and an auxiliary opaque screen within each cylinder and arranged in front of and above the transpar- .ent screen aforesaid.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIPPE CHARLES MAURICE MONTBARBON.

Witnesses:

Axnni BORDILLON, Euchre Pronon. 

